Read More

Resorts World Manila is a complex with hotels, restaurants and bars, a casino, shopping mall, cinema and theatre.

It is situated in Newport City in Manila, and is popular with tourists.

The Philippines is facing a crisis in the south of the country, where troops have been battling Islamist rebels since May 23.

Evacuated employees seen at the entrance of a hotel at Resorts World (Image: REUTERS)

A tourist wearing a bathrobe after he was evacuated from the Resorts World Manila (Image: REUTERS)

Resorts World Manila (Image: Google)

President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law on the southern island of Mindanao last week.

Duterte has said he fears militant group Islamic State's "terrible ideology" will spread on Mindanao, an island of 22 million people, and has warned it could become a haven for supporters fleeing Iraq and Syria.